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The Department of Commerce announced it is taking the lead for the Opportunity Project, an initiative started by the Obama administration to use big data to create solutions for challenges like affordable housing, job opportunities and quality education.
Last month, NASA launched a web portal that lets anyone look over data and findings for the research it funds. The goal is to promote the open sharing of data, something the science agency sees as part of its mission statement. Dr. Gale Allen, deputy chief scientist at NASA, tells Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the access portal and what NASA hopes it will accomplish.
Neo Technology’s Emil Eifrem explains why graph databases are no longer the sole domain of enterprises and how law enforcement agencies and other government organizations are instead now using them to manage growing mountains of citizen information.
The General Services Administration is starting an interagency community on AI, to help agencies and private industry work together for civilian services.
The National Technical Information Service is getting ready to announce the names of private sector organizations chosen to help agencies meet their mission using big data.
The Cancer Moonshot initiative is increasingly relying on open data to link patients with treatments, but with that data sharing come questions of how best to protect confidential and personal information.
Harry Singh, the deputy associate director and deputy CIO of Treasury’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing, said his agency is building on the success of putting its enterprise resource planning system in the cloud.
As the federal government moves steadily, if not quickly, toward IT modernization and data-driven solutions, executives from fields other than IT are looking at how new technologies, like simulations, can benefit their missions.
Few American cities are blanketed in smog any more. But just because New York isn't Beijing doesn't mean there's no room to improve air quality. That's why the EPA is launching a challenge to cities and towns across the country to develop plans for using air quality sensors in a big data sort of way. Robin Thottungal, the EPA's chief data scientist and director of analytics, joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
What is the state of cybersecurity in the federal government? Find out when Strategic Cyber Ventures CTO Ann Barron-DiCamillo joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk. September 20, 2016
The Army is planning a pilot for common desktop environments next year.
The Department of Health and Human Services stood up its Idea Lab in 2013 to establish and build on a culture of innovation within the department.
F5 Networks' Lou Giglio, Jeff Deal, and Ron Cochran join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss encryption and it's role in consumer security. September 13, 2016
Rob Foster, the Department of Navy’s chief information officer, released a new guidance to accept more certifications and qualifications from sailors, seamen and civilians instead of the one-size fits all approach.
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